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Woman challenges bizarre 70-year-old rule that stops her entering Miss World pageant

Miss Ukraine 2018 had her title stripped because of the rule

The Independent UK

New York Woman Challenges Beauty Pageant Rules Excluding Mothers

Danielle Hazel and Gloria Allred challenge beauty pageant rules excluding mothers, seeking to end discrimination and stereotypes in Miss America and Miss W...

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"From a period when the band's theatricality had yet to spill over into pretension": Styx successfully fight the pomp rock wars on The Grand Illusion

The Grand Illusion was the first of four consecutive triple-platinum albums for Styx, establishing them as one of America’s biggest rock acts

Louder

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Vanessa Williams reveals she quietly divorced Jim Skrip three years ago

‘I’m doing what I love, and I’m in love with life,’ Williams says

The Independent UK

Vanessa Williams addresses viral Miss America nude scandal 40 years later

‘There was a tremendous amount of onus, pressure, shame, judgment,’ Williams says

The Independent UK

A former Miss America is running for Congress as a pro-choice – and anti-Trump – Republican in North Dakota

Miss America 2018 Cara Mund created shockwaves during her reign after publicly taking pageant leadership to task for bullying and other bad behavior. Now she’s tackling another challenge: running for Congress in her home state of North Dakota as a pro-choice Republican who will not “bow to” Trump, she tells…

The Independent UK

‘Such a hot mess’: turmoil inside the world of US beauty pageants

A Miss USA winner has handed back her crown, and another champion has resigned – is the lustre of the pageant starting to wear off?

The Guardian - US

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Nina Davuluri And Fiancé Radiate Joy In Engagement Announcement

Former Miss America Nina Davuluri and her fiancé announce their engagement, radiating joy and love. The couple's bond and commitment symbolized through stu...

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Celebrating Love: Nina Davuluri And Ryan Coleman's Engagement

Former Miss America Nina Davuluri happily accepts Ryan Coleman's proposal, marking the start of their love story at their first date location, receiving wa...

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Leticia Frota: Graceful Miss America Exuding Confidence And Elegance

Leticia Frota's journey to becoming Miss America showcases confidence, elegance, and empowerment. She serves as a role model, advocating for important caus...

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Miss America 2024 crowns first US Air Force officer

Madison Marsh from Colorado was crowned Miss America 2024

The Independent UK

A Hollywood hotshot’s son was arrested over a torso in a dumpster. Now, his wife and in-laws are missing

Los Angeles police arrested 35-year-old Samuel Haskell on murder charges after human remains, believed to be his wife Mei, were found in a dumpster several miles from the couple’s home in Tarzana. Andrea Blanco reports

The Independent UK

Miss USA scandal: Something wasn't right

Filmmaker Nicole Rittenmeyer on challenges of investigating beauty pageants and why "it's not a bunch of bimbos"

Salon

Behind the scenes at Miss America, 1984

The morality was Victorian, ‘militant virginity’ was the order of the day

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The Independent UK

Vanessa Williams says she won’t get plastic surgery or fillers ‘yet’: ‘No, no, no, no, no’

The singer and actor prefers non-invasive treatments and a tip-top fitness regime

The Conversation

White House plan to combat antisemitism needs to take on centuries of hatred, discrimination and even lynching in America

As reported antisemitic incidents in the U.S. in 2022 soared to an all-time high, the White House began developing plans to combat this hate, proclaiming in an official statement, “antisemitism has no place in America.”

Tribune News Service

Why Clay Aiken is done with politics but can’t quit touring with ‘Idol’ pal Ruben Studdard

Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken, who were 24 years old when they became two of “American Idol’s” biggest stars, are starting to sound an awful lot like a couple of old men.

Los Angeles Times

Here’s why America Chavez joining the MCU in ‘Doctor Strange 2’ is so important

The expansion of the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse continues with “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”

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Inverse

'Doctor Strange 2' fails its female leads in two crucial ways

The biggest issues with 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' stem from the fact that the Marvel film doesn't understand Wanda Maximoff and America Chavez.

Tribune News Service

'Wouldn't Dad love this?': NCAA title bears bittersweet joy for Bill Self and family

NEW ORLEANS — Here was Bill Self's wife, Cindy, hurrying to embrace him with a grandchild in one arm. Daughter Lauren was up next. And then came his ecstatic mother, Margaret, for the hug of all hugs.

Tribune News Service

The crowning achievement for Anchorage's Emma Broyles might be challenging assumptions about what it means to be Miss America

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Miss America had yet to make her grand entrance at a gala in her honor when a couple yawns escaped.

The Guardian - UK

‘Good times? I was out of it’: The Dropout’s Naveen Andrews on booze, drugs and baffling the world in Lost

He found fame in The English Patient before becoming a huge TV star. Now he is tackling the Theranos fraud scandal. But addiction in the 90s nearly cost him everything

Newslaundry

‘Bombshell’ and ‘The Loudest Voice’ bring to screen the toxicity of sexual harassment in US news media

“I am not a feminist” Megyn Kelly, played by Charlize Theron, says repeatedly in the film Bombshell, often more to reassure herself that she fits in the Fox newsroom than to deny her conviction in feminism.

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